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conqueft, had fcarcely any communication but with the Afiyrians 

 or Egyptians, and certainly in the time of Noah could not have 

 been acquainted with any but the inhabitants in their own di{- 

 tricl:, of which particular tra£t they therefore can be only pre- 

 fumed to have fpoken. All general terms rauft, in like manner, 

 be reftrained by the context, or fubjecl: they allude to ; and 

 when the ambitious views of Lewis the 14th, for unlverfal empire., 

 were moft exclaimed againft ; no one ever fuppofed they extended 

 to the dominion of the globe. 



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